From a scientific point of view, recent studies demonstrate the relevance of biophysical aspects of the forest-climate interactions, that may be important locally or in specific time frames [1].
Signifying the forest, the Climate Changed Symposium dinner appetizer was a trio of dried, preserved and foraged mushrooms — fungi known to help the soil store carbon dioxide and thus slow the pace of climate change.
Her work was the inspiration for a recent day-long, "Call of the Forest: Water, Climate, Spirit" conference attended by more than 200 people in the Northern California seaside hamlet of Point Reyes.
However, the forest type, climate and soil resource availability along the elevational gradient in our study were complicated.
The Forest and Climate Change Programme is undertaking and supporting action on a number of levels.
With Rio+20, there's concern in some quarters that marine issues might be marginalised, given the attention now being focussed on the urban environment, forests, climate change, agriculture, food security, and such like.
She will be joined in the studio by John Vidal, the Guardian's environment editor, and Davyth Stewart, the senior campaigner in the forests and climate change team at Global Witness.
Organisers say the two-day gathering of 400 experts in the Norwegian capital city aims to renew the forests and climate change agenda in light of the experience of Redd projects to date.
Without entering into universal regimes to protect the global commons, the living systems upon which all civilization depends such as the rain forests, the climate, and the oceans, states cannot fulfill this basic function.
The contribution of the forest sector to climate change mitigation results from different and partly competing options, such as increasing the forest sink or maximizing the energy or material substitution by wood products [6-9].
